Court quashes convictions of 29 Drax campaigners
Twenty-nine environmental campaigners convicted of offences after a protest at the Drax power station in North Yorkshire in 2008 had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Exposed undercover officer led to quashed convictions
Former undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, who spent seven years posing as campaigner Mark "Flash" Stone, is the reason why the convictions of 29 environmental protesters were quashed today by the Court of Appeal.
Kennedy's actions previously led another case to collapse in 2011 when six environmental campaigners were accused of intending to storm the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire.
Kennedy's true identity was discovered by accident when his real passport was found
He went on to offer help to the protesters in the trial, causing the case to fall apart in the process.
It led to the-then Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, to invite the protesers to appeal and a review of undercover police tactics to be carried out.
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